Yutch

Yutch (/jʌtʃ/) is a Gallo-Romance language closely related to Twench.

Yutch
Yutch
Pronunciation	[jʌtʃ]
Created by	Shariifka
Language family	Indo-European Romance Western Romance Gallo-Romance Yutch

Introduction

Etymology

Yutch is ultimately derived from Iuti, the Latin name for the Jutes.

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns are not declined for case.

There in no grammatical gender besides natural gender (similar to English).

Plural is usually formed in -(e)s.

Articles

Precede the noun they modify.

• Definite article: le
• Indefinite article (only in the singular): a (before consonants), an (before vowels)

Pronouns

Person/ Number	Subject	Object	Possessive
			Adjective	Pronoun
1S	you	me	my	mine
2S (arch.)	tou	te	ty	tine
3SM	el	el	sy	sine
3SF	lay	lay	lay	lays
3SN	lou	lou	louse	louse
1P	noose	noose	noster	nosters
2S+P	woose	woose	woster	wosters
3P	else	else	lour	lours

Numerals

Twench numerals

	Cardinal	Ordinal	Fractional
0	null	nullem	—
1	une	prime	—
2	doose	second	demy
3	treece	terce	terce
4	quatter	quart	quart
5	cink	kint	kint
6	six	sixem	sixem
7	set	settem	settem
8	ought	oughtem	oughtem
9	noove	noovem	noovem
10	deace	deacem	deacem
11	onze	onzem	onzem
12	dozz	dozzem	dozzem
13	trezz	trezzem	trezzem
14	quatterze	quatterzem	quatterzem
15	kinze	kinzem	kinzem
16	sezz	sezzem	sezzem
17	setdiss	setdissem	setdissem
20	waint	waintem	waintem
21	waint-une	waint-prime	waint-unem
30	traint	traintem	traintem
40	quarant	quarantem	quarantem
50	cinkant	cinkantem	cinkantem
60	sixant	sixantem	sixantem
70	settant	settantem	settantem
80	oughtant	oughtantem	oughtantem
90	noovant	noovantem	noovantem
100	cent	centem	centem
1000	mill	millem	millem
10⁶	million	millionem	millionem

Verbs

Principal parts

For the majority of verbs, the full conjugation can be determined from two principal parts: the infinitive and past participle.

These forms are given in dictionaries. Otherwise, the infinitive is used as the citation form.

Verb classes

Verbs may be regular or irregular.

In regular verbs, the past stem is derived regularly from the infinitive stem with the suffix -et (-t after final -e).

Irregular verbs form one or more of the stems irregularly.

• Present stem: When this is irregular, it is most often due to suppletion.
• Past stem: This is the most common irregular form, and most often is preserved from Latin. Generally, irregular past forms take the same endings as class 3 regular verbs, but with a modified stem.
• Past participle: This is most often preserved from Latin. Verbs with irregular past stems often use the same stem in the past participle (with the standard -t ending) but this is not always the case, and some verbs with regular past stems may have irregular past participles. In such cases, regular and irregular past participle forms often coexist.

Personal endings

Personal endings are added to the present and past stems. These stems are obtained from the 1S forms by removing the final -i if present. Note that if the 1S form does not end in -i, the corresponding stem is identical to the 1S form.

Personal endings

Person/number	Ending
1S	-(i)
2S	-(e)s
3S	-(e)t
1P	-(e)ns
2P	-(e)ts
3P	-(e)n

Note:

¹ Schwa -(e)- may be inserted before personal endings in the present tense depending on phonetics but never after vowels.

• In -(e)s: Schwa is kept after -s-, -z-, -sj-, -zj-, -tj-, and -dj- and dropped otherwise.
• In -(e)t: Schwa is kept after -t-, -d-, -tj-, and -dj- and dropped otherwise.
• In -(e)n, -(e)ns, and -(e)ts: Schwa is dropped after vowels and kept otherwise.

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Example texts

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 1)

Toot human esters nasce liver et equal in dignitate et draights. Else son endootet of raison et conscience, et else deve at age of une alter in a spirit de frathertate.

/tuːt ˈçuːmən ˈɛstəɹz næs ˈlɪvəɹ ət iːkwəl ɪn ˈdɪɡnɪtət ət dɹeɪts ‖ ɛls sʌn ənˈdutət əv ˈɹeɪzən ət ˈkɔnʃəns | ət ɛls diːv æt eɪdʒ əv juːn ɔːltəɹ ɪn ə ˈspɪɹɪt də frɑːðəɹtət/

Other resources

Swadesh list